Leatherfolk
by Thompson, MarkFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-07-01
Publisher(s): Daedalus Pub Co
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Summary
Since its publication a decade ago, this Lmabda,Literary Award-nominated book has become a,classic, must-read book on human sexuality and,identity. Widely cited a sbeing among the most,useful books of its kind, this co-gender anthology,is both historical witness to and provocative,treatise on this junique and often misunderstood,subculture. The diverse contributors look at the,history of the gay and lesbian underground, how,radical sex practise relates to their spirituality,and what S&M means to them personally.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Preface to the 10th Anniversary Edition | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| This Leather Tribe | |
| The Hanged Man | p. 1 |
| S/M: Some Questions and a Few Answers | p. 15 |
| The Molecular Anatomy of Leather | p. 37 |
| Her Body, Mine, and His | p. 44 |
| I Get Real: Celebrating My Sadomasochistic Soul | p. 49 |
| A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: Notes on the Materialization of Sexual Fantasy | p. 56 |
| S/M and the Psychology of Gay Male Initiation: An Archetypal Perspective | p. 65 |
| Six Decades of Shadow Dancing | |
| 1940s...Dr. Kinsey Takes a Peek at S/M: A Reminiscence | p. 81 |
| 1950s...One Among Many: The Seduction and Training of a Leatherman | p. 91 |
| 1960s...Artist Chuck Arnett: His Life/Our Times | p. 106 |
| 1970s...The Catacombs: A Temple of the Butthole | p. 119 |
| 1980s...S/M's Copernican Revolution: From a Closed World to the Infinite Universe | p. 142 |
| 1990s...Black Leather Wings | p. 157 |
| The Body Becomes Politic | |
| A Second Coming Out | p. 169 |
| Snapshots of Desire: Surviving as a Queer Among Queers | p. 179 |
| I Am Your Frankenstein | p. 185 |
| Swastika Toys | p. 193 |
| What Happened? | p. 210 |
| The Limits of the S/M Relationship, or Mr. Benson Doesn't Live Here Anymore | p. 221 |
| The View From a Sling | p. 233 |
| Spirit and the Flesh | |
| A Meditation on Religion and Leatherspace | p. 247 |
| Living in Leather: An Inner Journey | p. 252 |
| The Spiritual Dimensions of Bondage | p. 257 |
| Fantasy, Fetish, and the Goddess | p. 267 |
| I Am the Leatherfaerie Shaman | p. 276 |
| Erotic Ecstasy: An Interview with Purusha the Androgyne | p. 284 |
| Sacred Passages and Radical Sex Magic | p. 294 |
| Magical Masochist: A Conversation with Fakir Musafar | p. 303 |
| About the Contributors | p. 320 |
| Selected Readings | p. 327 |
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